Billie Joe Armstrong Quotes
The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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I just love kids. I always have.
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All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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I really make sure that my girls understand the importance of education. I don't want them to be spoilt and only know private school kids. I want them to behave well by example.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids – he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.
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I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
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What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?
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With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of carry around that shame, that feeling of being inferior to the North. I think I did lose some of the accent for a while. Because when I was a graduate student, I was terrified at having to get up in front of a roomful of smart New York kids.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premises about our employment without having the opportunity to verify them.
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The strings to our past are burned because we need a new beginning.
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Every possession was crucial. Every point, every missed cut. It was that kind of a game. It's nice to finally win here.
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
